Susan Ellsworth

Susan would be hard put to name a favorite character from her Concord Players roles, which range from Gwendolen (The Importance of Being Earnest) in 1977 to Marmee (Little Women) in 2002. Helen, in And a Nightingale Sang, is a front runner, partly because of the chance to revisit a northern England accent. Andy, in Stepping Out, let her finally try tap dancing, assisted by the talented Linda McConchie, who played her dance instructor.

Susan did appear in Wellesley’s The Man Who Came to Dinner as Lorraine, but Harriet fits into an intriguing category of spacy ladies, such as The Medium in Roshomon and Deborah in A Touch of the Poet. Neither of those characters had a secret like Harriet’s, which makes this role an especially fun one.